Crazy that this information is so ... obscured. I had actually contacted Microsoft a year ago trying to do things the up-and-up way, only to get crickets in return. And still, bafflingly, what you found? That's an upgrade license.
It's as if the idea of people putting together their own PCs just never occurs to Microsoft.
It's as if the idea of people putting together their own PCs just never occurs to Microsoft.